11676. i.e, ‘His word of everlasting doctrine.’
11680. ‘Three things make me sure that the state of man’ &c., referring to what follows.
11685. Job xiv. 2.
11694. Cp. Conf. Am. iv. 1632 f.,
‘So that these heraldz on him crie,
“Vailant, vailant, lo, wher he goth!”’
11721 ff. ‘But as for man,... by reason of sin which holds possession of his body, hell retains the soul for ever.’ For ‘celle’ see note on 301.
11724. fait a despire, ‘it is right to loathe’: see note on 1883.
11728. pour sa maisoun, like ‘de sa maisoun,’ ‘as regards his house.’ See 2 Kings xx.
11770. It is likely enough that Cassiodorus says something of this kind in his official letters, but it is hardly worth while to search for it. Expressions such as, ‘Multo melius proficitur, si bonis moribus serviatur,’ are common enough.